Film & TV
Ellen Hollman
born 1983 · actress
Detroit-born actress known for the warrior Saxa in Starz's Spartacus and roles in The Matrix Resurrections.
- Born
Detroit, Michigan
age 43- Detroit years
- 1983
- Field
- Film & TV
01 / The Detroit story
The Detroit story
Ellen Hollman was born in Detroit in 1983. She built her career in television and genre film, often in physically demanding action roles. Her best-known part is Saxa, the fierce Germanic fighter in the Starz series Spartacus: Vengeance (2012) and Spartacus: War of the Damned (2013). She followed it with the role of Zypher in AMC's martial-arts drama Into the Badlands (2015). Her film appearances include Road House 2 (2006), the post-apocalyptic adventure Love and Monsters (2020) and The Matrix Resurrections (2021). The sources record her Detroit birth but no further details of her Michigan years.
Highlights
- Saxa in Spartacus: Vengeance (2012) and Spartacus: War of the Damned (2013)
- Zypher in Into the Badlands (2015)
- Films include Love and Monsters (2020) and The Matrix Resurrections (2021)